Institches with Bonnie: Quilt Along

Saturday, April 26, 2025

May 2025 Mysteries and Sew Alongs

I missed this one when it started in early April. Sandra at MMM (Musings of a Menopausal Melon) is a short Quilt Along. Check out this URL to see the beginning and the list of blog posts regarding the QAL.

https://www.mmmquilts.com/p/glowing-hearts-quilt-along.html . This is a free quilt along although you can purchase her pattern for alternate designs.

The Fat Quarter Shop is sponsoring a Designer Mystery Block-of-the-Month. See more info here: https://blog.fatquartershop.com/2025-designer-mystery-block-of-the-month/ It starts June of 2025 and runs until May of 2026. Pattern and material to make a 12” block will be mailed monthly. It’s $19.99/mo with an additional registration fee to sign up for the program. $$

Bear Creek Nickel Challenge Quilt starts 6/7/25 to 10/7/25 One time fee of $10. Patterns will be emailed to you once a week beginning beginning 6/7/25 last clue 10/7/25

https://bearcreekquiltingcompany.com/shop/product/the-nickel-challenge-quilt-pdf-email/ $

The International Quilters’ Guild is offering a Mystery Quilt that started in April. It started 4/21 and will last 5 weeks. This is being run on Facebook from what I can tell. There is a $15 charge for the mystery. (I’m not sure what the charge is for a continuing membership.) More info including size and fabric requirements are here:

https://content.internationalquiltersguild.org/course/april-2025-mystery-quilt/ $

Friday, January 14, 2022

Starts and Finishes

Here are two starts and one finish for you to enjoy. First up the starts.

For the Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2022 I chose Whirl pattern. It's a 9" finished block. I specifically chose a 9" block so that I could use my Accuquilt Go 9" Cube and Go Companion Set Angles. I'm continuing to try to use my Go dies as often as possible this year. Over the last 2 years I've gone a little crazy buying dies (mostly on sale) so I really need to use them. I can't decide whether to make only this block or make several different pinwheel style blocks. What do you think?

If one is good how about 2 and a sew along block?

I want to make 3 RSC blocks each month so I would have 30 blocks after 10 months of colors. We'll see if I actually succeed. The top block is the first block in Sherri McConnell's Quilting Life Quilt Block of the Month. You can read all about it, find the fabric requirements and the first block here. My friend Sharon has been doing these yearly sew alongs for awhile. I decided to join her this year. I hope she pushes me to keep up.

Next up is one of my finishes from December.

Hum, for some reason this didn't come out as great as I thought it did. I fell in love with this fabric with little bunnies wearing hats and holding peppermints. Truth be told, I bought it from Thousands of Bolts, Just One Nut probably in 2018 or so. It was on sale for maybe $5.00/yard. I let it simmer in my stash for a while but finally chose a pattern from one of Ursula Reikes books and made it up. It sat for a while until I decided it was time to buy backing fabric and get it finished. I originally planned to give it away but I like it way too much to send it out into the world. It will be donated eventually but I'm enjoying it now.

Here's an up close of the backing. I can't find any info on the quilting design. I know it is fairly new to me but I haven't been able to find it at any of the regular places I purchase designs from. Weird. I do know I used a white So Fine thread from Superior Threads for the top and bobbin. Unfortunately, I have not been recording all that information in my quilting book so I'm not sure the exact color number or the name of the design. It's a small quilt, maybe 35" square. (When I next go down to the studio I'll check the design name and the company name.) Click on the pic of the backing to see the design better. In fact, all the pics should enlarge if you click on them.